what is privoxy?

[Folk Theory]

why do i need pivoxy to use Tor?
what does it do that Tor cannot do by itself?

Thanks,
FT

[bodhi.zazen]

Privoxy : http://www.privoxy.org/

Tor : http://www.torproject.org/

Tor documentation : http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en

See the "Staying anonymous" section

You can run them separate (tor without privoxy and/or privoxy without tor).

For a discussion of the issues see also: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1237

Be sure to read the first few comments at the bottom.

[markharding557]

i can testify privoxy is a very good and highly configurable web filter,tor on the other hand i find is painfully slow